David Schaberg is Associate Professor in Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA and Co-Director of the Center for Chinese Studies. He received his B.A. in Humanities Special Programs from Stanford University in 1986 and in 1996 completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Chinese, Greek, Latin) at Harvard University. His dissertation was on narrative representation, rhetoric, and thought in two great early Chinese historical works, the Zuozhuan and Guoyu. Schaberg has published articles on early Chinese literature, historiography, and philosophy as well as Greek/Chinese comparative issues in Early China, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, and Comparative Literature. He is author of A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography, Harvard East Asian Monographs 205, which was awarded the 2003 Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies (Pre-1900 Category). More recent work addresses the history of oratory in early China.